Hitchhiking Earth bacteria could evolve to live on Mars [feedly]

Finding microbes on Mars would be the discovery of the century, and the last thing any self-respecting space agency would want to do after such an announcement is to sheepishly backtrack and say "sorry, it was from Earth all along." To make sure that any organisms dug up on the Red Planet are natives and not stowaways, NASA has launched bacteria into Earth's stratosphere aboard a balloon, to test how well they might survive under Mars-like conditions.

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http://newatlas.com/nasa-emist-balloon-bacteria-uv-test/48732/

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